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San Francisco, California, Us

Develop, Drive and Deliver strategic programs and products across Cruise to advance the state of the art for safety, validation, risk management and systems engineering for AI systems in the autonomous vehicle industry. Provide a center of excellence for program and product management at Cruise. Overhaul the Cruise Safety Case. Serve as a thought partner to regulators.

San Francisco, California, Us

End to end development and deployment of the world’s first mass produced autonomous vehicle without driver controls, purpose built to provide a delightful ride-hail and delivery experience at a cost which beats personal car ownership.

San Francisco, California, Us

Enabling autonomous vehicle software and hardware program management teams for a safe, clean and efficient self driving future.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

The program management arm of the Mission Engineering and Operations (MEO) directorate. Set the vision for and drove the integration of three groups of program managers to improve adaptability, transparency and efficiency. We managed programs for: *Satellite launch and orbit raising operations*Design and installment of ground systems and satellite control centers*Support of SSL customers in long term operations and anomaly resolution including the delivery of complex on orbit solutions for redundancy restoration and mission re-purposing.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

The formation of this department marked a major transformation in our approach to operations. I was excited to pursue this opportunity to build an interdisciplinary team from the “ground up” with full technical responsibility for all events from satellite separation until final deactivation (a 20 year time frame in many cases). With this team, SSL can accomplish more operationally.Some examples of our key deliverables:o Automated satellite operations software products (Mostly Python)o Data trending tools for web and mobile applications (Python and Mongo DB)Our key engineering services included:o Launch and orbit raising operationso Anomaly resolution and recovery support for on orbit spacecraft o On-site satellite handover support and satellite operations trainingDuring my tenure in this position, I was able to develop my passion for employee development, recruiting, providing department vision, defining our interface with outside organizations and internal processes as well as working with upper management to define practical and efficient organizational structuring.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

This job was really any space geek's dream. I was the Technical Director for recovery from major spacecraft anomalies and investigation into critical failures by teams of geographically separated, interdisciplinary engineers from teams both internal and external to SSL.• Responsible for weekly executive briefings on major anomalies and failure investigations• Responsible for rapid selection and compilation of emergency response team from external orgs• Responsible for spacecraft health and safety during launch and long term ops• Developed automated spacecraft health and trending tools and a mobile applicationThis was a 24/7/180 on call position where I was able to combine my control system design profession, operations experience and passion for risk assessment and mitigation as well as leadership. Applying these developing skills to most on orbit failure events during my tenure was an awesome blend of excitement, growth and technical depth.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Spacecraft Lead Dynamics and Control Systems engineer• Designed Acquisition Mode and Station Keeping Mode controllers, filters and observers for Loral spacecraft (MATLAB).• Developed MATLAB analysis tools to increase understanding of the on-orbit disturbance environment • Lead Controls engineer for launch operations. • Developed systems to reduce cost, and increase efficiency and reliability both for the Orbit Raising and In Orbit Testing mission phases.• Provided handover support on site for the Telesat, Asiasat and Hispasat customers as well as in depth customer training in the Attitude Control System, Power System and Data Handling System.• Contributed to increased productivity through refinement of internal processes and clarification of interfaces with outside orgs